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And if I hear a former smoker tell me how easy it was for them to quit, I'm getting out my whoopin' stick an shoving it up their .....


2 1/2 weeks and just plain miserable. Does it ever get better?

The only thing worse than quitting,is failing,and keep smoking.

I have been trying to quit dipping this week. Not working out too well for me. I feel your pain and good luck.

It was absolutely the hardest damn thing I ever did. I refuse to think of doing it twice in one lifetime.
My Daughter did it twice. girls got guts.

Can't think of anything much harder.


but that's why they make men like you trips, for the hard stuff.

I quit for 2 years, and have now been smoking again for five. The ones I want to beat with a rubber mallet are the ones that tell me "it is all about willpower"

Good Luck

I've tried to quit dipping at least 50 times...


Travis

Cancer is a lot more miserable.

Quitting gets a bit better after a couple of months, but you literally have to comit yourself to quitting each miserable day. Then, you only want to smoke once a week or so for six months, and then, after a year, you don't want to smoke at all. If you smoke just one, you're hooked again and the process starts all over.

After I quit, for a long time I had dreams that I was smoking again and had ruined all my attempts to quit. It's a bad habit.

First you have to really want to quit.
Then you have to suffer.
Nobody ever promisedd every moment of life would be good.
Fight thru the hard times, the other side is worth it.

quiting smokes plus a case and half of beer a day habit been 13 yrs. smoked 2-3 packs a day plus the beer. gots money now

It gets better. You might start doing some floor exercises and perhaps cut carbs to give your mind some other things to dwell on besides head off the coming weight gain(grin)
Stick it out because you got this far and you will be able to kick it.

By the end of the first month it was pretty well behind me.
hang on for another ten days nnd you will be on the down hill side of the habit

I was coughing bloody black [bleep] out of my lungs every morning. It was easy to quit.

I smoked for 13 years and I haven't smoked for 23 years now. Like was said, the worst thing that can happen is that you fail.

But on a more positive note, Bravo for you for quitting. It is a hard thing to do but it is worth every moment of pain and suffering you think you're going through right now. Tough it out, go the distance, do whatever it takes. I'm pullin for you man!

Alan

Something more miserable than giving up cigarettes? Yes. Being married to a woman giving upm cigarettes.

How long until it gets better? I had to gain twenty pounds before getting over the smokes. Of course, that only took a month or so after quitting.

I've been trying to be a good ex-smoker for seven years now. I can smell smoke that I never thought was possible but try to be tolerant 'cause that was my habit for almost thirty years.

Yup,.....continuing to smoke them

GTC

Get some cigars man. When you get the urge to smoke, light her up and take a big suck, do this until you turn green. Problem solved. That's how I beat it. Play MJ music at same time.Beat it- Beat it- Michael Jackson. Hang in there because quitting booze is much harder. I did both so you can also-believe me you will live a fuller life-hunt longer and happier.
Then go talk to the big phone in that little room that's after listing to MJ music. LOL

Losing weight and keeping it off!

I quit almost exactly 3 years ago. No, its certainly not easy, but it is worth it. You already have 2 1/2 weeks in, youre on youre way! Dont go back now. I had night sweats and vomiting for a couple weeks, but eventually got through it.

The hardest part of quitting is the mental side. Smoke after eating, while driving, etc. Its an automatic reaction after years of smoking.

Stick with it!

Since I quit fifty-six years ago, I've known a passel of things that are a heck of a lot more miserable.

You don't want to know.

A lot of life's miseries are hard by the yard but by comparison a cinch by the inch.

Keep at it. Giving-up isn't the relief that you expect it to be.

Good luck!

I quit smoking AND chewing at the same time, a little over two years ago.

I thought it was fairly easy.

But then, I was properly motivated with a blood clot in my leg that laid me up for months......